C Drive Space (not!)

[sgbroimp]

I have an Assassin PC, 2011 version with Ceton 6 Pcie tuner, Raid1 2 TB drive for recordings, but the 60 gb SSD C drive with the OS, Ceton OS, EPG123 etc. is the issue. Over the past few years space on it is getting all used up and now I am on the fumes. Have deleted old patches, temp files, MC updates, etc. Anything else that would get me some space or should I just bite the bullet and by a 120 gb or larger SSD?

[RedWMC]

I’ve run into the same issue and haven’t really been able to find what is using the space that shouldn’t be there. This might give you some help to clean up a bit, but I’d recommend upgraded to a bigger drive.
https://www.hanselman.com/blog/GuideToF ... dows7.aspx

Edit: I have 120 GB but only 111 is the actual drive. I’m back down to 10GB, I don’t have much other than Windows installed so not sure what else is being eaten I’ll probably upgrade when go to 10.
Good luck!

[sgbroimp]

Many thanks for weighing in, Red. Sounds like to be safe I should go above a 120 perhaps? Crazy what is eating up the storage on these things. The D Drive (My recordings) I get, but not the C.

[dmagerl]

I assume you ran Disk Cleanup?

Also, delete all old restore points and check your downloads directory.

[sgbroimp]

I assume you ran Disk Cleanup?

Also, delete all old restore points and check your downloads directory.

Yes, ran DC, downloads file cleaned out. Restore points...interesting idea. How do that?

What is the heck would cause this:

Made an image of this drive in 2015 and the file size was 12.4 gb. Only add since then was Ceton 6 (replaced 4). Just made another image and it was 20.6 gb. Both compressed files of course as the drive now has 58 gb on it, but wow, what is going on to be sucking up all that storage space in four years?

[RedWMC]

Did you try running this tool:
https://windirstat.net/
I had a bunch of files from Plex updates using small amounts of space that added up to quite a bit ~20gb. Regardless I think it’s not worth it to keep cleaning up constantly 240gb sad drives are pretty cheap to just swap it out.

[sgbroimp]

Well I am now embarrassed a bit. The man who did my cleanup of the junk etc. apparently forgot to empty the recycle bin. Did so last night and got back 2+ gb more so now have about 3+ gb free. Not great but something at least. But I agree with you, writing on the wall and for $49 I can get a decent Crucial 250 gb SSD in there. Probably best to do so in next months. My tech has a Norton software that will image the old drive and the put it back after the new one is installed.

Longer term I face another issue. 2011 system no spring chicken. If my H67M mainboard goes it will be hard to get a replacement, at most a refirb or used version (Asrock H67Mb3) only if lucky. Hard to face an upgrade with all working so well and the more modern boards (as I understand) will require a new processor, graphics package (now Intel HD2000) and the two Enterprise 2TB drives I have just replaced will not work either.....not in a great position either way looks like.

[prsa01]

I've had good luck using disksavvy to find disk use hogs. Look at folders like appdata & user data. Once you ID use, you will need to do a little research to see what you can safely delete. Chrome will hog ALOT of disk space over time. Most of it can be deleted if you don't mind losing history, etc.

Hope you find things that work for you.

Worst case, ssd drive prices have really come down & using macrium or similar to clone is a relatively painless process

[sgbroimp]

Thanks, prsa. Someone mentioned checking the power states/hibernation setting as a certain file (hiberfil?) could be the size of my RAM which is not peanuts.

[sgbroimp]

Well this is really goofy: I had 4 gig of space left on the 60 SSD. Then I went in and stopped the hibernate function (using an elevated command prompt). The hiberfil.sys folder departed and I figured I would now have the 5.9 in that folder plus the 4 that already had so around 10 right? Wrong, I now have 2 gig and am completely bewildered, I mean jeez......

[dmagerl]

Have you run a disk space analyser?

I like Spacesniffer. It doesnt need to be installed, just run it. It'll tell you whats hogging all the disk space. No need to guess anymore.

http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/

[sgbroimp]

Have you run a disk space analyser?

I like Spacesniffer. It doesnt need to be installed, just run it. It'll tell you whats hogging all the disk space. No need to guess anymore.

http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/

Many thanks. Sort of bin there, though not that way. Biggest hog I could easily do without was the 5.9 gig of that hibernation folder. But yes, can try the Spacesniffer I guess. Maybe that folder is still hiding somewhere afterall.

[Billycar11]

another thing to do is rebuild the index on one of my htpcs the index had grow to about 10gb and after a rebuild it was much less

[sgbroimp]

Interesting. How does one do such a rebuild? And is that in the C drive where Win7 is located?

[Space]

Yes, the index is normally stored on the C: drive.

https://www.techjunkie.com/how-to-solve ... x-rebuild/